Mesa Trail

The past two Tuesdays, I have been joined by Teresa, Patti (Johnny Quest), Maureen (Mocha Latte), Sidney the Aussie, and Eben (on the first week) on a beautiful, sometimes cool, then hot, then slippery hike up into the foothills. I will try to add a nice picture (good luck with that!). The scenery is breathtaking and the company is the best in the world. Not sure what else I can say. It's a wonderful time to spend with friends and dogs, talking, not talking, breathing heavy, slip-sliding away . . .

A Sunday Hike in January

Hi all, took a lovely hike this afternoon with Patti and Barb Beaton. We went up south fork of the Shanahan Ridge Trail off Hardscrabble to the Mesa to north fork. It was lovely, woody and not too windy. Stay tune for a blog on a Haitian hike! Teresa

About the Blog

Hey all,

So, in addition to the new accounts I set up, I made an account called "100milehiker." (author name is Avid Hiker)
If you want to invite people to post to the blog, simply give them the 100milehiker credentials to log into the blogspot.com site. That will allow them to access the blog and post their own experiences.

Right now, only 2 accounts have administrative access to the blog (mine and Maureen's) but that can definitely be changed. Let me know if you would like administrative access and I can make it happen :-) Administrators can change the layout and template of the blog, as well as edit or delete other author's posts.

On privacy: anybody in the world can view this blog. There are certain privacy limitations we can impose, however. To do that, you would need an email address for every person who you would like to be able to read the blog.

On charts: we may be able to provide a downloadable excel spreadsheet for members to keep track of their own hikes, but I do not know of a way to put a chart on the blog that can be edited by people.

If you carry a camera with you on your hikes or other outdoor activities, we have a nearly unlimited amount of space for pictures on the blog. While you are writing your post, simply click on the small picture icon in the editing bar (third from the left).

(photo: matt beaty)

On comments: Under each post, there is a section for comments. If you are curious about how a fellow member did a hike, how long it took, or just want to tell them "good job," feel free to comment below any post. You don't have to be a member or a regular blogger.

On the photo at top: If you like it, we can keep it. Or, if have a different image in mind, it can easily be changed. Or we can go without a picture. What do you think? Keep it, change it, or lose it? Leave a comment below or email me.

Any other questions can either be posted here or emailed to me at matt@vaultphotos.com

Thanks!
-Matt Beaty

Patti's First Blog

This is great. Thanks Matt for setting it up. I'm new to blogging and have some questions. How do we invite people in? I know lots of folks who may be interested. Is there a way we can add a chart that people can post their hiking hours to or where we can track our hours? For example, is there anyway we can add an excel file that members can edit or perhaps an excel file that one person manages and others can view? We are motivated by visual aids.... Also, can anyone look at this blog? Do we have privacy or is it open for anyone who stumbles upon it?

Here's some ideas that we have come up with so far for the 100 hour hiking club.

• Members should seek to hike 100 hours in one year. The club gives you access to others (family and friends) who have the same goal. Hopefully, this will lead to accountability, ideas for great hikes and friends to walk with. Feel free to set higher goals (I think Teresa might hike 300+ hours this year at the rate she's going)....


• A hike could be substituted for other activities such as biking, snowshoeing etc as long as it gets you outside in nature. Walking your dog in the neighborhood doesn't do it. So take that same dog 15 minutes away where the houses, cars and stores are replaced by streams, pine trees and wildlife. Some place that allows nature to fill your spirit.


• Being that we're a bit goal-oriented around here, we thought it a good idea to set some kind of personal reward for reaching your goal (like a weekend hiking trip after a year) or maybe a trip to New Zealand (to hike the Milford Trek) after successfully completing membership for 10 years (maybe that should be five years:)) Bobby Niebauer backpacked the Milford Trek in January of 2008. It made a huge impact on his life. Hiking for ten years with that goal in mind keeps us close to Bobby.
  
• These are very loose guidelines. We ultimately hope that this kind of community would help us stay connected to something we love dearly (nature and all that it is).

Anyway, I haven't hiked in a week. Although I do have a hike planned with my friend, emma to the royal arch for later in the week.

I would also need to report that Michael (my brother) would like to claim 15 hours for walking through paris over the last week while visiting his daughter, Katie, who is spending her senior year in high school in France. Here's what he said, "I’m going to submit to the Henry Walking Committee approval for 15 hours worth of walking while in Paris. 9 hours over 3 days in Paris, and 6 hours over 2 days in Rennes."

Love to all.

Patti Henry Tussey

Welcome!

Welcome one and all to the 100 mile hiking club which was inspired while hiking of all things! Inspired by those amazing Henry sisters, it is one way that we can keep track of our hikes and share fun things that happen along the way.

On Dec 26th, Teresa Henry and Leslie Harvison and I hiked up from Shanahan ridge to the mesa trail with our new border collie puppy named Mocha. It was Mocha's first hike in the foothills of Boulder and at 13.5 weeks old, we didn't push it beyond 1 hour. One highlight from the trip was seeing part, yes part of a deer's leg near the side of the trail. Teresa says that she was on the trail the day before with Liese and she doesn't think it was there then. Thankfully, we did not see any evidence of mountain lions or bears! Twas a lovely hike ....
Maureen